General Knowledge Quiz

[DaleCooper]

"Weather" balloons

 

[Trackman]

National football teams?

 

[xotGD]

All on the same line of latitude.

 

[krus_aragon]

Motorbike manufacture?

National football teams?

All on the same line of latitude.

Something to do with airship construction?

"Weather" balloons

Airships are involved in this connection, but so are other things. Weather balloons aren't involved, but manned balloons are.

No relation to motorbikes, football, or lattitude.

You'll need to do a bit more paperwork before you can mark a win here...

 

[xotGD]

They all have a single letter country designation for aircraft registration. For example, UK is G-XXXX.

 

[krus_aragon]

They all have a single letter country designation for aircraft registration. For example, UK is G-XXXX.

Correct, moreover they've been given entire letter from the alphabet. (Canada has C- and CF-, but there are other countries sharing that letter, such as Andorra with C3- and Chile with CC-.)

I've no idea how the likes of Man and North Korea managed to wangle a single-letter prefix like the vast USA, but there we go.


Your turn to fly, xotGD...

 

[DaleCooper]

Correct, moreover they've been given entire letter from the alphabet. (Canada has C- and CF-, but there are other countries sharing that letter, such as Andorra with C3- and Chile with CC-.)

I've no idea how the likes of Man and North Korea managed to wangle a single-letter prefix like the vast USA, but there we go.


Your turn to fly, xotGD...

What about Zimbabwe?

 

[krus_aragon]

What about Zimbabwe?

Apologies, I missed them off the original list. (I mustn't have scrolled quite to the bottom!)

 

[xotGD]

I'm out all day, so Open Floor...

 

[DaleCooper]

I'm out all day, so Open Floor...

Next question:

If someone suffers from Trypophobia what do they fear?

 

[Chrysalis]

Next question:

If someone suffers from Trypophobia what do they fear?

Fear of small holes?

 

[DaleCooper]

Fear of small holes?

That's correct (no sniggering at the back!), your turn...

 

[Chrysalis]

That's correct (no sniggering at the back!), your turn...

It's very much a real thing and it's fairly annoying.

The next question is:

What is the goddess Freya's preferred mode of transportation?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

A wild boar?



Edited to add - this must be my quickest response ever on a quiz!!!

 

[Chrysalis]

A wild boar?



Edited to add - this must be my quickest response ever on a quiz!!!

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Nope! At least not as far as I'm aware.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Hmmm... I must be mixing up my godesses then...

Never mind.

 

[Peterthegreat]

A cat hauled chariot.

 

[Chrysalis]

A cat hauled chariot.

Yep!

Your turn to come up with a question.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Which former German President was held as a prisoner of war near Sheffield?

 

[Gloster]

Karl Carstens?

 

[MotCO]

Hermut Kohl?

 

[randyrippley]

Doenitz

 

[Peterthegreat]

Karl Carstens?

Sorry not Carstens.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Hermut Kohl?

Not Kohl.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Doenitz

Correct, Karl Doenitz succeeded Hitler as President for a short time in 1945. He was held as a captured naval officer at a PoW camp near Sheffield in 1918.

Your turn to preside over the next question.

 

[randyrippley]

Who was the first man to circumnavigate the world three times?
(First time was by accident...)

 

[MotCO]

Phileas Fogg

 

[DaleCooper]

Yuri Gagarin

 

[xotGD]

Magellan

 

[randyrippley]

Nobody right so far